Feasibility of whole body hypothermia for neonates without congenital heart defects surviving in-hospital cardiac arrest unrelated to perinatal asphyxia

Therapeutic hypothermia is recommended to improve outcomes in neonates with perinatal hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy [1]. The treatment is best provided by whole-body hypothermia (WBH) using servo-controlled devices [2]. Similarly, hypothermia is recommended to improve outcomes in cardiac arrest-surviving adults [3]. In children beyond the perinatal period available data are conflicting: recent trials enrolled heterogeneous populations and failed to show any significant benefit [4]. Thus, further studies are needed to understand which patients could benefit from WBH.

Source: Resuscitation - July 10, 2017 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Valentina Dell ’Orto, Marco Piastra, Orazio Genovese, Guillaume Escourrou, Giorgio Conti, Daniele De Luca Tags: Letter to the Editor Source Type: research